re: Florida head coach watch list 2025

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he has a stocked roster at Oregon and their boosters and AD give him anything he wants. He is now gonna be in a power 2 conference and has a lot of resources he won’t have at Florida there’s no reason for him to make that move it wouldn’t even be a lateral move but a step back

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yeah that's why coaches continuously leave oregon for other options.

oregon is not a destination job...its in the middle of nowhere and you're surrounded by annoying leftist scum

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oregon is not a destination job..

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neither is uf

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Interesting, care to list the programs that are destination jobs since UF isn’t?

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Alabama, UGA, lsu, Ohio State, Michigan, ou, USC, Texas, maybe Texas A&M despite their losing history.

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Our dumb brass wont make the offer tho

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And our boosters just want to destroy the swamp with stupid renovations instead of nil

Lane convinced ole miss ad and boosters to not waste money on renovations and just go into nil

Our boosters won’t do that

In a way lane might be in better position to win then Florida now because our boosters and uaa

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Don’t say urban, that’s not the reason why he left

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This guy gets it

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Which coach has left UF for an ‘upgrade’?

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none because the uaa hires under qualified losers that all get fired in 3-4 years

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Jacquez Green Is a former Gator who might be the most likely pick

Jeremy Frioud

Stephen Moffett

Tyler Eden

Tyrone McGriff

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Ok that’s fair the rest of the schools I listed besides OU still stand

Sorry this is somewhat TLDR to push home the point that UF is disconnecting itself from boosters and alumni, as it has been doing with the local community, for a long time now. None of this ends well for UF and changes are badly needed.

I just started watching some stuff from Ali Peek, she has a youtube channel. Her family is a legacy at UF, playing sports. She's a lifelong Gator and married a guy that played for one of Meyer's title teams at UF. She's had Meyer on her podcast. She and others are worried about what's going on at UF.

She sometimes appears with Buddy Martin. Buddy Martin is an older guy that has covered UF for many decades, and written books etc. He knows a lot of the history of the program and the people connected to the program. Martin conveyed something about the changes that have taken place at UF that bother many people - he knows some boosters that are strong supporters ($$$) of the program. Since Bernie Machen became president at UF a long time ago (he's been gone but his impact still felt), UF has been obsessed with academic rankings and things like that. It has not been a good development at UF.

Guys like this booster have kids that want to follow in dad's footsteps and go to UF. Not all of them can get into UF, though. However, UF will still call up and basically demand more and more money from these people. Guy finally had a conversation with UF and said, why on earth would I send you more money when I can't even get my child into school and my child has top notch scores? You're telling me you don't want my legacy to continue at the school, that you want to break that bond, but yet you still want my money. Why on earth am I going to give you a dime if I now have to send my child somewhere else and destroy this family connection to UF? Why not donate to the school that will accept my kid? UF has no answers for this, and they refuse to give legacy admission, and I think it's really eating away at support. I understand turning someone away with a 2.4 high school GPA, but when someone is putting up great scores, a legacy affiliation should mean something, because these ties are how colleges and athletic programs thrive. College is about attachment. Being an alumnus is a bond, not an obligation.

Ben Sasse, UF President, needs to reset the entire culture at UF or it's not going to go well for UF into the future. UF is and has been departing from all the things that made it a prime destination for many people, for many years.

People might remember that UF used to compete with FSU for #1 party school in the nation - at the same time, you would find very elite faculty in many departments at UF. UF would be well advised to return to those days. A by-product of this not-so-stuffy atmosphere on campus was a very, very strong group of entrepreneurs that came through UF. Those are the people that start businesses, make a lot of money, and support the school. These types of people are the ones that make your NIL prowess appear or disappear. It's not just a couple orange grove tycoons that made UF blossom when Charley Pell came to town and it takes more than those types to put a program in the top tier. Schools like Oregon and the involvement of Phil Knight are the exception, not the rule. Charley Pell went to Gator Clubs all over the place and talked to businessmen that came through UF and explained to them why the money was important, and it started flowing in - because those people were out there.

It was a very robust middle ground of businessmen that came of age on that UF campus, taking classes, working their way through school, partying like animals and so forth. They developed a bond with that school. A bunch of nerds with 5.0 GPAs don't do that - they come for the parchment and then flee for NYC or DC or some think tank or whatever, and they don't give a damn about the school. There is no Phil Knight for UF. But there's a bunch of dudes out there that went through business school or the building construction program that, together, can be as impactful as Phil Knight. UF is pushing them away.

Anyway, rant over.